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GTK support in GAMBAS coming of age ...

Submitted by oddjobz on Mon, 2007-08-27 08:21. General

Although I'd seen GAMBAS 'around' for quite some time, I'd written it off as a Qt/KDE 'thing' and not really paid it much attention. (I'd also made an assumption based on the name that it has something to do with writing games..)

More recently however I've been experimenting with GAMBAS (it's *not* aimed at writing games) and found that although it sports a Qt front-end and widget set, it's very robust and provides a fantastic IDE approaching the levels of Delphi / VB.

One of the new features available in the development version that has thus far been overlooked is full Gtk support!

After finishing some relatively complex applications and putting them into service, I can say that they're proving to be very robust and can easily be made to look as good as anything else you're likely to see running on Linux.

If you're looking for Rapid Appication Development and have a background in VB / Basic / Delphi, and don't want to spend the next year reading C/C++/C# documentation, it's definitely worth a look.

New website: http://gambasrad.org/ (in transition)
Old website: http://gambas.sourceforge.net/
Screenshot: http://gambasrad.org/screenshots/2006-08-06.png